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Syngenta AG

Headquarters : Schwarzwaldalle 215 4058 Basel Switzerland Switzerland web www.syngenta.com tel. 41-61-697-1111 stock : SYT analytics

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« ETHICAL » RATING OF SYNGENTA AG , group Novartis AG and subsidiaries
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Human 1 Jobs -6% /1998 Pollution 12 Fraud 3 Offshore 13 Sales 37 Bn $.€ /year Profit 44 Bn $.€ /1998 Wage 1770 *min. Influence 13 Infocom 5

shareholdercountry%source
AstraZeneca PlcUnited Kingdom39Company
Novartis AGSwitzerland61Company
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business
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2007Syngenta AG is the world's biggest maker of agricultural chemicals.Bloomberg
2007Syngenta, Bayer, Monsanto, BASF, Dow and DuPont together sell 85 percent of the annual pesticide bought in the world, a market valued 30 billion US dollars.IPS
2006Syngenta makes 7% of the genetically modified plants planted in the world.Les Echos
2006Syngenta makes 23% of pesticides sprayed in the world.Les Echos
2004Agrochemicals leader in the world, Syngenta produces and markets GMOs (Corn BT11) which account for 3% of its sales.Les Echos
subsidiarycountry%source
Advanta Seeds Netherlands50Les Echos
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country
address & contact : production type
incentive source
China China
Nantong : Kung Fu, Gramoxone
 Les Echos
Israel Israel
Zeraim Gedera : Production,
 Les Echos

  • Human impact

year name
photo position; compensation
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2007Mack, Mike
See the photo of: Mack, Mike Chief Executive Officer;
Company
2003Barnes, David
See the photo of: Barnes, David Vice-president;
Company
2003Bruzelius, Peggy
See the photo of: Bruzelius, Peggy Director;
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2003Doyle, Peter
See the photo of: Doyle, Peter Director;
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2003Gasser, Ruppert
See the photo of: Gasser, Ruppert Director;
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2003Landolt, Peter
See the photo of: Landolt, Peter Director;
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2003Reiser, Pedro
See the photo of: Reiser, Pedro Director;
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2003Taylor, Martin
See the photo of: Taylor, Martin Director;
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2003Thompson, Peter
See the photo of: Thompson, Peter Director;
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2003Watter, Rolf
See the photo of: Watter, Rolf Director;
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2003Weber, Felix
See the photo of: Weber, Felix Director;
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2000Imhof, Heinz Peter
See the photo of: Imhof, Heinz Peter Chairman;
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2000Pragnell, Michael Patrick
See the photo of: Pragnell, Michael Patrick Chief Executive Officer;
Company
year
employees
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social impact : country
source
2006
19500
Les Echos
2006
-480
Internal restructuring: United Kingdom
Les Echos
2004
-181
Le Temps
2003
21457
Company
2002
22364
Company
2002
-232
Les Echos
2001
-149
Edicom
1999
-3000
AP
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employees
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social impact : country
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country : consequences
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2007Brazil : The marketing of the transgenic variety of corn BT 11 resistant to insects was approved by Brazil's national technical Commission of biosecurity.AFP
2007 : Syngenta makes 23% of pesticides sprayed in the world.Les Echos
2007 : Syngenta makes 7% of the genetically modified plants planted in the world.Les Echos
2006Brazil : The Brazilian State of Parana (south) expropriated Syngenta Seeds of a farm in which the Swiss group proceeded illegally to experimental plantations of transgenic soya and corn near a national reserve, registered with the inheritance of Humanity by UNESCO. The Brazilian legislation prohibits transgenic plantations near protected zones. Parana, which wants to be State a “free of transgenic”, fined Syngenta 360.000 euros.AFP
2005World : Syngenta filed 15 global patent applications on several thousand gene sequences from rice, to be able to determine price, access, research and re-use of rice seeds in the future.GM Watch
2005Europe : Fabrique et commercialise le maïs génétiquement modifié BT11Les Echos
2005United States of America : Va payer une amende de 375 000 dollars pour avoir disséminé des semences de maïs transgénique Bt10 non autorisées aux Etats-Unis .AFP
2005 : Depuis 2001, a exporté vers l'Union européenne un millier de tonnes d'un maïs génétiquement modifié non autorisé, le Bt-10. Le Bt-10 contient un gène de résistance à l'antibiotique Ampicillin.AFP
2004 : Stockage de 150 000 tonnes de déchets chimiques à Bonfol entre 1961 et 1976 à dix mètres de profondeur, sur une superficie de 20.000 m2.AFP
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country : consequences
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  • Subsidy

year  salesincome source
2008   1.38   billion US$Les Echos
2007   1.11   billion Eu€Company
2006   80.63   billion Eu€Company
2003   6.580.36   billion US$Les Echos
2002   6.2-0.03   billion US$Company
2001   6.3   billion US$Company
2000   4.880.56   billion US$Company
1999   4.650.13   billion Eu€Company
yearfinancial misdemeanorsalesincomeassetsbuybacksource
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purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution
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2000Prevent binding environmental regulations (environmental protection through economic growth, self-regulation and free trade) : WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) : : United Nations translateCorporate Europe Observatory
1999Market admission for genetically modified organisms : EuropaBio : : European Commission translateCorporate Europe Observatory
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purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution
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dubious practice : image
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2008Disinformation: Syngenta stopped the financing of' a researcher, Tyrone Hayes, which showed that very low dose of' atrazine, a weedkiller manufactured by Syngenta, had an effect on the reproductive apparatus of the Amphibians and provoked the decline of their population.: Documentary

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